Color Conscious, Cultural Blindness: Suburban School Districts and Demographic Change

Education and Urban Society

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 695-722

  Welton, Anjalé D ^a   Diem, Sarah ^b   Holme, Jennifer Jellison ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

colorblindness; demographic change; race; school reform; suburban districts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938850954     PISSN: 00131245     EISSN: 15523535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013124513510734     Document Type: Article

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